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Originally Posted by MitchellCT
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Give the man his due.
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Thank you for putting words to what I was thinking. I think he did a good job, in particular, avoiding the bait provided by the more liberal justices, such as lumping what they were asking for into an argument for machine guns, armor piercing bullets, etc. Were he to have taken that bait, it surely would have poisoned his argument. By avoiding it, the Justices that are not inclined to agree with a strict interpretation of the amendment may agree that some rights are reasonable, whereas, to those same justices, the notion of making machine guns and ap ammo available to the public at large would have eliminated the chance that they felt private ownership was reasonable.